The second in what might be becoming a ongoing series of albums pairing the Belgian guitar-drone project Fear Falls Burning with like-minded

pals from the heavy avant-drone/sludge/metal circle (and I certainly wouldn't complain if this does turn out to be an ongoing thing...), this

collaborative album with Birchville Cat Motel is packaged in a high-gloss 6-panel digipack designed similiarly to the Fear Falls Burning/Nadja

collab CD that we has in the last C-Blast update, and anyone that picked up that collection of fuzzsludge trances will probably want to grab

this as well. The music made here is a monolithic metallic drone jam that expands slowly across it's 50 minute duration, with FFB's Dirk

Serries again providing the source drones by sending his guitar into effect processors, and sending these drifting dronescapes to Birchville's

Campbell Kneale so that he could paint the guitar textures with additional guitars and amplifier feedback, electronic processing, field

recordings, and minimal percussion. These two forces work perfectly together on this epic jam, appearing at first in a cloudy haze of

shimmering reverby guitar strum, smudgy ambient rumbling, and eerie feedback. Gradually, the sound builds as more layers of Skullflowery

feedback and distant threatening thunder begins to amass, becoming louder and louder, surging into a maelstrom of blackened Loveless

guitars and tinkling windchimes stacked upon each other, half-formed melodies peeking out of the swells of menacing dissonant amp howl and

grinding distorted raga drone that reaches overwhelming levels of volume and density. Towards the end, the track becomes more subdued and

softened as it glides into a blissful swirl of muted hum and iridescencent glow, finally fading into an icy, sedated amplifier hum. Being a fan

of both artists for awhile now, I knew this was going to be amazing before I even hit play, but it is an incredibly beautiful and crushing

blast of metallic chamber drone that begs for further collaboration from these guys. Highly recommended!